Case Swap 9 - whaddya reckon?

[Tilt]

Its well into 2013 and I can't believe its been so long since the last one.

A great chance to get some feedback on that experimental brew you're wanting to perfect for this year's NHC - or just wallow in the delight of a mixed case from other brewers keen to share the love...

Has anyone else got the hankering to get another CS off the ground?

How's the first weekend in May sound as a swap date?

 

[DP]

I'd be keen to participate in this. Can you give me a rough overview of how it works? I'll likely have an American Brown, PKB clone attempt or best bitter to contribute

[mattd2]

Also keen but have no idea how this works. Hopefully I will have something decent to offer!

[Simon David kelly]

I'd be keen to get back into it, if I can get the brew gear back together before the end of the month.

[Tilt]

Great you fellas, some others with a CS itch to scratch!

The process goes something like this:

1. Brew a beer you're proud of and want other brewers to try and give feedback on.
2. Post your recipe as a separate thread in the NZ case swap group - feedback from others'll be posted under your own recipe thread.
3. Bottle it up in 750s - plastic bottles are best as they have to be shipped around the country using "smash and stomp" courier service.  Plastic being lighter also keeps the costs down a bit too. 
4. How many you send in will depend on the interest we get ----> total number to contribute = number of brewers in the swap minus 1
5. Get your beers to a central point under your own steam.
6. The organisers then make up a bundle of mixed cases and send them out. 
7. Receive your case, chill, drink and enjoy while giving feedback on the beer to the brewer via their CS recipe thread.

 I'm happy to be the Auckland depot again this time around. 

If we get a few interested from Wgtn/ ChCh or elsewhere it might be good to have local "hubs" and organisers there too.

Shipping with NZ post to Auckland (assuming this is the only depot as it was last time, that we've got 13 brewers and everyone is using PET bottles not glass) is about $20 from the North Island and $35 from the South.  

Redistribution costs split over the lot of us came to about $10 each. 

So to summarise costs, if Auckland is the central point, are:

$10 for Auckland brewers who drop off and pick up in person

$30 for other North Island brewers

$45 for South Island brewers

How does that all sound? 

[DP]

Perfect, thanks. Count me in!

[Dan]

Yay - it's back and better than ever!!

Count me in again - the last one was awesome :)

[Adam Barnes]

Yep, I'm in... Good stuff Tilt.

 

Happy to co-ordinate a wellington effort if it helps.

[Tilt]

Sweet - numbers are building.  Thanks for the offer Adam

To keep track, so far we have 6 on the card:

 

Damian Peterson

mattd2

Simon David Kelly (tentative?)

Dan

Adam Barnes

Tilt

 

If you're keen can you post where you're from so we've got an idea of numbers from different parts of the country and what this might mean for logistics.

Keep em coming...

 

 

[mattd2]

I'm in Papamoa/Tauranga. Also I have a whole lot of 750ml PET bottles that are just sitting around. Anyone in the Tauranga area is free to grab some if they need.

[Dan]

I'm up in Whangarei - the winterless and rainless north!

[Tilt]

Sounds like the rest of NZ at the moment too, bro. 

[Dan]

Yeah - so true! Drier than a nun's....